Partners
The Fussy Baby Network
® works with these agencies to provide or enhance assistance to families in the Chicago-land area:
University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital
(773) 702-3095
The University of Chicago is the primary collaborating partner of the Fussy Baby Network
®. Dr. Larry Gray, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, is medical director of the Fussy Baby Network
®. He attends weekly clinical team meetings and runs the Fussy Baby Clinic at Erikson's Center for Children and Families. He also provides training in behavioral and developmental pediatrics to medical students, residents, and physicians here and abroad.
National Network
The Erikson Institute in Chicago, home of the Fussy Baby Network
®, provides training and consultation to organizations across the country that wish to adopt the Fussy Baby Network
® model.
Current Fussy Baby Network
® site affiliates include:
Phoenix
Fussy Baby Network® services have been integrated into Southwest Human Development’s Arizona Institute for Early Childhood Development. Parents who call the institute's Child Abuse Prevention Center help line with concerns about a difficult-to-soothe infant receive support over the phone and are offered home visiting services. For assistance, call
1-877-705-KIDS
Oakland
The Children’s Hospital and Research Center
in Oakland, California is now offering warmline support through its
pediatric primary care clinic as well as home visitation services. To learn more about Fussy Baby Network® Oakland, call 510-450-5802.
Boston
Fussy Baby Network
® services are integrated into the Healthy Steps program at Boston Medical Center. Services include phone, clinic consultation and home visitation through the primary care clinic for families. To learn more about Fussy Baby Network
® Boston, please call
617-414-4767.
Denver
Fussy Baby Network
®
services are integrated into the Irving Harris Program in Child Development and Infant Mental Health at the University of Colorado, Denver, Chidlren's Hospital. Services include warmline phone consultation, clinic consultation and home
visitation through the primary care clinic for families. To learn more
about Fussy Baby Network
® Colorado, please call
1-888-6-CRYCARE or visit
www.fussybabynetworkcolorado.org.
Washington D.C.
Fussy Baby Network services are now available through Integrated Therapy Services (ITS) in the Washington D.C. area. Services include telephone support and on-site clinic visits. To learn more about Fussy Baby Network
® ITS, call
301-962-0800 extension 5 or visit
www.its-palss.com.
Los Angeles
Fussy Baby services are being integrated into several existing programs at the University of Southern California's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.
Among them are Project ABC, birth-to-five system of care project, and Corazon de la Familia Infant-Child Intervention Program, a Part C early intervention program. Both are home-based intervention and treatment programs designed to provide family support, education, modeling, developmental guidance, mental health services, and linkages to other community resources. THe Fussy Baby approach is also being adopted in new early childhood mental Health parent groups. In the future, the USC-UCEDD Fussy Baby team will expand services to the Feeding Clinic and Behavior in Babies Clinic.